Tens of Thousands Flood the Streets of Global Financial Centers, Capitol Cities and Small Towns to “Occupy Together” Against Wall Street Mid-Town Manhattan Jammed as Marches Converge in Times Square. New York, NY — After triumphing in a standoff with the city over the continued protest of Wall Street at Liberty Square in Manhattan’s financial district,...

On the 17th of September, we want to see 20,000 people to flood into lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few months. Once there, we shall incessantly repeat one simple demand in a plurality of voices and we will not leave until that demand has been met. Like our brothers and sisters in Egypt, Greece, Spain, and Iceland,...

Last week I got an email query — usually it is the writers who query — from a company that does publicity for authors.  They wanted to know if I would like to pay them to promote my books and they provided lots of creds about dealing with big name publicity outlets on TV and in print.  I asked them if they were prepared to take on an earlier task in the “business...

“Running with Scissors” and “The Squid and the Whale” have very similar set-ups and not that dissimilar outcomes but they are radically different.  I think the diff is in tone, style, point of view, and all the other things that are really tough to teach kids.  These movies are a little too racy to use in high school which is kind of a shame, because that’s...

Authorities announced on Wednesday that a woman, Winifred Jiau, from the U.S. state of California was arrested at her home in Freemont for allegedly handing over sensitive inside-information on a few companies including Nvidia Corp and Marvell Technology Group Ltd to two unrelated portfolio mangagers at two different hedge funds in return for substantial, illegal...

Schools of writing are like schools of fish.  The authors are all pretty similar, they group up and move as one, and if you like that kind of fish, you should look for the school.  I could put in a quip about bottom-feeders or flying fish here, but I’ll refrain.  This time.   In the last few weeks in several literary contexts there have been “apples and oranges”...

The story of the bronze footprints of the sign talkers neatly fits this decade. The conference that they commemorate was in 1930 and the building that was built in part to locate and protect that circle was the Museum of the Plains Indian. This filmed convention was meant to record the basic gestures of the last sign talkers from several tribes. Bits of it are on YouTube...

When I was an undergrad at Northwestern (1957-1961) pretending to be a harmless speech ed major when I was actually cramming in courses in theatre, Angna Enters (1897 – 1989) came to campus. She was performing as a mime, though she was a pan-artist, half Isadora Duncan and half Yoko Ono. This was not Marcel Marceau pretending to be in a box or pestered by a fly....